Where did the last negotiation round for a High Seas Treaty take us?
By Arne Langlet, Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki and Alice Vadrot After two weeks of negotiations, the planned-to-be final intergovernmental conference (IGC) for a new instrument to govern marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction did not end with a treaty but with the decision to reconvene in August 2022 for a fifth IGC. In our MARIPOLDATA Blog on […]